NNA News

Athlon Media Group has agreed to sponsor National Newspaper Association Postal Chair Max Heath for his expenses representing the National Newspaper Association for the seventh straight year, through 2015.

It is that charitable-giving time of the year, and the National Newspaper Association Foundation is asking members to please consider making a fully tax-deductible gift to the non-profit arm of the National Newspaper Association that does so much to help your business.

Consumer and public safeguards in 46 states require operators of self-storage facilities to notify the public in a local newspaper before offering a renter’s goods for an auction after a default. But pressure on legislatures to eliminate this requirement have caused a handful of states to leave the notification requirement to the facility owners.

More community newspapers will be tapped with paid advertising to promote Small Business Saturday in 2014 because of the National Newspaper Association’s efforts with American Express. Specific placement plans were being finalized in late October.

The National Newspaper Association in September joined dozens of other journalism groups to ask U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to review police handling of media relations in the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO.

John Edgecombe Jr., publisher of the Nebraska Signal in Geneva, NE, was elected as president of the National Newspaper Association, during the association’s 128th annual convention and trade show Oct. 4, 2014. He had been vice president.

The U.S. Postal Service should evaluate the impact of slower service to newspaper subscribers before proceeding with 2015 closings of mail processing plants, National Newspaper Association President John Edgecombe Jr., said this week.

It can be argued that there are two prevailing schools of thought about the National Security Agency, one of the most controversial and most polarizing organizations in America, if not the entire planet.